Black History Week in Kestrels

                                     

Kestrels have loved learning all about influential black Britains as part of our focus for Black History Week.  We have been reading Floella Benjamin's story, 'Coming to England' in English and even got to see it performed live at the Mayflower Mast Theatre on Tuesday.  We have had a go at writing part of her story in our own words and have loved illustrating our narratives too!

In addition, we have learned all about HMS Windrush and the contributions that West Indian people have made to British culture and society.  We found out about Claudia Jones and her reasons for founding the Notting Hill Carnival, as well as making our own vibrant carnival masks.

  

Outstanding Owls

This week, Owl’s have been working really hard to turn their narrative stories from other cultures into beautiful picture books. A lot of time and effort has gone in to making these books look amazing and all the children are looking forward to reading them to year 1 tomorrow morning! 

Kestrels Bootcamp Experience

Today, Kestrels took part in a 'Bootcamp' experience to help them get into role as Alex Rider, the main character in our class text 'Stormbreaker'.  Alex Rider is a teenage boy sent to an SAS Bootcamp to train to join MI6 and become a spy.  Kestrels will now be writing diary entries in role as Alex and we're sure their own experiences today are going to really help them describe Alex's experiences:  exhausting, tough, intimidating, gruelling...and we were pretty 'nice' Sergeants!!

 

Motivated kestrels

A few more samples of work from kestrels group B, who produced more excellent work at the end of last week.  The quality of the work is superb and I can't wait to see what they will produce later this week!

Kestrels are working super hard!

A huge well done to the kestrels in Group B who have worked super hard today!  They have produced some fabulous ideas in English; thought logically in maths and put heaps of pride into their continent fact files for Geography as well as finishing off their brilliantly colourful lock down montages!  Wow - what a day!

kestrel's book club

It's always great to see and hear about the fabulous books you have been reading at home.  Here are three super book reviews about wonderful books that have been shared with us recently.  Keep them coming kestrels!

More creative dioramas

Today we received photos of these two fabulously creative dioramas based on the book 'Tuesday'.  We're loving your work kestrels!

Diorama delight..

This creative kestrel has created a really sweet diorama of the last scene of our book 'Tuesday' by David Weisner.  We love it!

A budding illustrator?!

I was blown away by the standard of this comic strip produced by one of our kestrels.  She has presented her narrative (written last week, based on our book 'Flotsam') in graphic form and it is superb!

A 'storming' World Book Day in Kestrels!

Kestrels have had a great day getting immersed in our class text 'Stormbreaker'.  We have focused on settings, in particular the villain's lair and wrote our own setting descriptions.  We made comparisons between our text and 'Dr No' by Ian Fleming and also looked at a graphic novel version of Stormbreaker.  This led to us having a go at producing our own page for a graphic novel, which was challenging!

We also loved having a chance to buddy up with Kingfishers this afternoon and share some of our favourite texts from when we were in Year R.  Another great World Book Day!

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Bitterne Manor's WONDERFUL WORLD BOOK DAY!

Last week Bitterne Manor finally celebrated their LOVE of reading and took part in world book day! It was absolutely amazing seeing everyone dressed down in their favourite pjs, including members of staff too! All in all, children had fun taking part in reading activities planned in class, the story treasure hunt displayed in the learning lab, listening to a teacher read at lunchtime and sharing their favourite book with another class peer! Prizes for the 'eXtreme reading' competition and the story treasure hunt will be handed out this week during Wednesday's assembly. All the pictures handed in were incredible and it's been a very tough job picking the most unusual! Well done to those who entered, you ALL did brilliantly!

Here's a sneak peek of the day itself...